Arrium SG derailment

Happened around midnight Sunday night, door on a wagon mid consist came open on the way into the tip pocket, all wagons bar the last one in front of the trailing locos made it through the product. The bogies eventually dislodged from the frame and ended up under GWA002 causing extensive damage to the front of the loco, approx 1200m of track has been damaged.

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Happened around midnight Sunday night, door on a wagon mid consist came open on the way into the tip pocket, all wagons bar the last one in front of the trailing locos made it through the product. The bogies eventually dislodged from the frame and ended up under GWA002 causing extensive damage to the front of the loco, approx 1200m of track has been damaged.mrjones

I take it that this occurred at Whyalla and that the damaged track is within the balloon loop.

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The Arrium train carries hematite (iron) ore originally from Arrium's Peculiar Knob mine, loading onto the trains at the new balloon loop at Wirrida. The end point is unloading (through doors on the bottom of the hopper wagons) into a complicated trans-shipment operation at Whyalla.

Prominent Hill is

Operated by Oz Minerals, not Arrium.

Copper (transported by train) and gold, not iron.

Loaded at the Wirrida siding (a couple of kilometres south of the junction to the new balloon loop) for transport to Port Adelaide, not Whyalla.

Transported in sealed half-height 20ft containers rather than hoppers.

Not very prominent, it stands a lofty 21 metres above sea level

You've previously asked that question on just about every thread we've had on here related to the Peculiar Knob iron exports Brian, maybe you should bookmark it this time.

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 23:00

Last edited by justapassenger on 28 Oct 2013 23:12; edited 1 time in total

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There is some confusion above.
There are two facilities at Wirrida which have no relationship with each other.
One is the OZ minerals siding parallel to the loop, this is the mineral concentrate referred to which goes in container type kibbles to Port Adelaide where I understand they are unloaded by Rotainer.
Just north of the crossing loop there is a balloon loop which was developed by WPG for iron ore which was to have been unloaded at Port Pirie from the reinstated radium siding and barged out. This was the operation which was bought by OneSteel/ Arrium and the ore is taken to the new unloading loop at Whyalla. This is the service affected by the derailment.